Exhibitions
Urban Screen, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, daily 8 AM–9 PM
Diasporic Worldings
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Diasporic Worldings is an experimental video that explores the experiences of people in the diaspora as they form and imagine relationships with land, place, territories, and ecosystems. It uses the term “diasporic” as an adjective to describe those who belong to a diaspora due to either forced or voluntary migration and “worlding” as a creative process where “worlds” develop through ongoing engagement and interconnections with humans and more-than-humans. Inspired by Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant’s distinction between archipelagic thinking as fragmentary and intuitive and continental thinking as all-encompassing and systematic, and Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza’s use of frottage drawing as a mnemonic technique to recover an embodied connection to place, the video features actions performed on camera and images involving different approaches to map-making.
Credits & Acknowledgements:
Thank you for the support from Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University, Ruth Mandujano López, Sarah Shamash, Peter Rauscher and Cecilia Valencia Sandoval.
Text excerpts from:
Édouard Glissant, Philosophie de la relation: poésie en etendue. Paris, Gallimard, 2009. Translation by the author.
Cristina Rivera Garza, Escribir es tocar: transcripción, letra manuscrita y tipografía, Conferencia en el Colegio Nacional de México, 18 de febrero de 2025.
Direction & Production:
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, 2025.
BIOGRAPHY
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda is an interdisciplinary artist and a cultural historian. Her work explores the female body as a site and an archive of cultural, gendered, and techno-scientific expressions through academic publications and multimedia installations. She leads the critical media art studio at the School of Interactive Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where she is an Associate Professor.
URBAN SCREEN
Located outdoors in the campus’ southeastern plaza, the Urban Screen is a public art initiative of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Offering 4–6 new commissions a year, the Urban Screen spotlights local and international artists and filmmakers working across diverse media disciplines of art, design, media, and technology. The screen operates daily from 8 AM–9 PM.